"half-island" meaning in English

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          "text": "Because of its half-island identity, the Korean peninsula has instilled among those who live along its coasts and on some of the over three thousand mostly small offshore islands, a long-term interest in fisheries.",
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          "text": "For some time, the Midianites controlled part of the AraBa territories of Negeb desert and the half Island of Sinai.",
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          "text": "Therefore, полуóстров is а half-island, or peninsula. Incidentally, the word peninsula is formed in the same way, from the Latin words раеnе (almost) and insula (island).",
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          "ref": "2011, Robert D. Kaplan, Monsoon, page 284:",
          "text": "Here the Chinese navy sees little but trouble and frustration in what Chinese strategists call the First Island Chain, which, going from north to south, comprises Japan and the Ryuku^([sic – meaning Ryukyu]) Islands, the “half-island” of the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, [...]",
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